Base-ball bat.



N 838,257. v PATB NTED DEG. 11, 1906.

- E. KINST.

BASE BALL BAT.

APPLIOATION rILBD JUNE 30, 1906.

THE NORRIS PEfEN c.

' V No. 838,257.

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BASE-BALL BAT.

Specificaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 11, 1906.

Application filed June 30, 1906. Serial No. 324,193.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMILE KINsT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the oounty of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Base-Ball Bats, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a bat used in playing base-ball, and hascertain novel features by which the user of the bat may strike the ballin various directions.

The prinoipal features in this invention are a handle provided with asegmental ballhitting part, along the face or concave part of which areseveral lon itudinal grooves. These grooves and severa slight ridges areintended to provide means for hitting the ball so that the same will notgo foul. By also hitting the ball at certain points of the bat it willhave a tendency to be driven in certain desired directions, such asright field, left field, &c.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side View of the bat. Fig. 2 is a faceview of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The bat has a handle 10, and projecting from the same is a segmental orcurved Striking part 11. This part has a broadened curved face somewhatflat on its face, as shown at ll in Fig. 3.

12 represents longitudinal grooves formed in the face or concave part ofthe Striking part 11, the two outer grooves being curved or bowedoutwardly, and the middle one, 12% being approximately straight. Theseaid in preventing the ball from making a fly or foul by engaging thesurface of the ball When struck. The bat also has smaller longitudinalgrooves or ribs 13 occupying the face or front part of the bat-handleand also extending to some extent along the sides of the bat beside theflattened portion ll as shown in Fig. 3, and there provide means forhitting or deflecting the ball if it should not be hit squarely by theflattened portion 11 of the bat, and thereby preventing foul tips.

I Claim- A base-ball bat curved at the end to form a segmentalStriking-face, said face being fiattened and having therein a pluralityof longitudinal grooves.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subsoribing witnesses.

EMILE KINST.

Witnesses:

SIGNA FELTsKoG, H. G. BATCHELOR.

